# 1854 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (until 29 April); Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (from 17 May)
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell (until 10 April); Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (from 16 September)
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (until 3 April); Robert Davies Pryce (from 7 May)
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
* Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## Events

* Late August — Third cholera pandemic in Cardiff.
* 31 October — David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr) receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
* 5 November — At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross.
* 11 November — In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
* unknown dates
** Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War.
** Love Jones-Parry is High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire.
** The Telegraphic Despatch is published in Swansea, the first newspaper in Wales to come out more than once a week.
** A penny newspaper, the Herald Cymraeg, is founded at Caernarfon, with James Evans as editor.
** John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.

## Arts and literature
### New books
#### English language

* Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History
* Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament

#### Welsh language

* John Edwards (Eos Glan Twrch) — Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
* Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) — Y Gomerydd
* Owen Wynne Jones — Fy Oriau Hamddenol
* William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth

### Music

* David Richards — Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems)

## Births

* 1 January — Peter Morris, baseball player (died 1884 in the United States)
* 8 April — Robert Arthur Williams (Berw), clergyman and poet (died 1926)
* 17 April — Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge (died 1946)
* 30 April — William Critchlow Harris, Welsh-Canadian architect (died 1913)
* 10 July — John Lloyd Williams, botanist and composer (died 1945)
* 16 December — J. D. Rees, colonial administrator (died 1922)

## Deaths

* 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25
* 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85
* 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66
* 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician, 85
* 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
* 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79
* 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75
* 29 December — Joseph Tregelles Price, industrialist, 70